Two things today when I thought, really, things couldn’t get worse. The CFIs are going to be done in such a speeded up way that access to counsel is just fake.

Our challenge to the new Biden asylum ban is on file.

"That’s a simple ban with narrow exemptions, and it turns the asylum process on its head," the suit continues.

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1/T-42 coverage depicting migrants as inherently threatening--ppl who will take your jobs, your safety, your health, your *something*--plays into centuries-old xenophobic stereotypes that have never been borne out by facts.

Key elements of the U.S. asylum regulation now in effect are incompatible with principles of international refugee law. No policy or measure should restrict the fundamental human right to seek asylum. (2/3)

"[The asylum ban] puts vulnerable people in harms’ way.” ACLU Attorney Katrina Eiland explains why immigrant advocacy groups are suing the Biden administration over its new asylum restrictions. José Díaz-Balart MSNBC

And by “get a lawyer,” we are for the most part just talking about getting the chance to TALK with a lawyer who can explain to these exhausted people, in their own language, how this process works and what aspects of their experiences are relevant.

Yesterday, on the first day of Title 8 and the #asylumban, I met a Honduran mother with 2 minor children who had just arrived to Matamoros fleeing persecution in Honduras. They were turned back by CBP when they presented at the official port of entry and asked to seek asylum 1/

The degree of deference a dct opinion gets ought to be inversely proportional to the amount of snarky drivel it contains

🎸 joltin’ joe has left and gone away 🎶

This part of the Texas border story needs amplification: "There are serrated metal plates that look like circular saw blades between each buoy." Who puts SAW BLADES in an area of frequent drownings, in a fast-flowing river navigated by civilians? From tpr.org/border-immigra…

According to the Illinois Department of Public Health, the child was 3-years-old. The death occurred in Marion County, which is about 80 miles east of St. Louis and about 250 miles south of Chicago.

SB4 is on hold again; the district court’s injunction is back in effect